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The article focuses on a partnership which has developed between two South Africans. South African entrepreneur Gilad Stern and Evelina Tshabalala have joined in an effort to make Ms. Tshabalala a national hero and celebrity pitch woman for AIDS patients. Stern had noted a lack of black women in mountaineering and picked Tshabalala, who is infected with the AIDS virus, to help him in climbing the highest mountains on each of seven continents.

The article deals with the anticipated announcement by former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the price discounts secured by his foundation on medicines for AIDS patients in developing countries on January 12, 2006.

Discusses problems with drug procurement for AIDS victims and patients at the Mpilo Chest Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, with international assistance from the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention and French group Doctors Without Borders.

Reports the Clinton Foundation, created by former United States President Bill Clinton, plans to announce deals with several of the world's leading medical companies to cut prices of two HIV diagnostic tests in developing nations. Comments from Jim Kim, adviser to the Director General of the World Health Organization, regarding the importance of diagnostic pricing; Concern among activists related to the test's ease of use in impoverished countries; Discussion of diagnostic pricing; View of doctors regarding the benefits of the tests on the drug treatment regimen given to patients; What the companies are including along with the test kits, including training and the machines necessary to run the tests; Companies that have signed the deal with the Clinton Foundation; Cost to the countries for the CD4 tests.

Reports on the growth in the number of AIDS patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa as of August 16, 2001.

Reports on the plan of Nigeria to use cheap generic AIDS drugs starting September 2001.

Focuses on studies on treatment interruption among AIDS patients.

Reports the plans of a research group in the United States to delay the treatment of AIDS patients.

Considers the lack of health-care workers willing to treat AIDS patients in the developing world. Impact of a serious shortage of trained doctors, nurses and healthcare workers on the distribution of antiviral drugs in poor countries hard-hit by the epidemic; Examples of such countries as Cambodia, China, and Vietnam; Efforts by desperate patients to self-treat and under-medicate; Reasons for the shortage of health-care professionals in these regions; Lack of coordination and funding in getting doctors into developing countries from such places as the United States. INSET: Pitching In.